The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-09-17
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OF WEST VIRGINIA RECORDED IN
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daughters to mourn his loss. He
was native of Greene county, Pa,
but moved to Berkeley county about
Is years age.
Last Friday William Harvey
Jones, of Pipe Creek, Belmont coun.
ty, Ohio, went to Moundsville, with
Il check for $1,000 back pay which
he had been granted by the Govern
ment The check was cashed at the
bank and Mr. Jones left for Wheel
ing. That evening he boarded the
steamer Princess at Wheeling wharf
to go TO Bellaire and has not since
been heard of. Foul play is suspect
ed.
e. MAYHEM, an aged citizen of
Berkeley county, met with a serious
and probably fatal accident few
nights since. He was on his way
to his home at Berkeley Station. He
had been asleep and when the sta.
tion was called, arose in a dazed
condition of mind and attempted to
get off. In a moment he was under
the wheels and a leg was mashed so
badly that amputation was neces-
sary.
Elmer Clark, the murderer of Will
lie O'Neal, an account of whose es-
cape from the Asylum at Weston
was published a few days ago, was
hunted down and captured at four
O'Clock on the afternoon Of his sec
ond day of. freedom. Clark will be
taken back to the Moundsville Pen
itentiary Immediately with Thomp-
son Morris, n Nicholas county con
vict, who has enjoyed brief sojourn
in the Asylum by his well feigned
insanity.
W. G. Ogden, Howard N. Ogden,
I. f. and Fred w. MeIntire and
George w. Price, residents Of Fair
mont, have entered into an incorpor-
ated association to be known as "The
West Virginia Investment and Trust
Company with headquarters at
Fairmont, Marion county, for the
purpose Of transacting a general in
vestment and trust business. The
corporation is to expire September
1st, 1887 The shares are 500 each
and the privilege to increase the
stock to one million dollars, in all,
is asked.
A dispatch from Point Pleasant
under date of September Sth gives
the following account of sad sui
eide: Charles Kenny, the younger
Of two living sons of Prof. J. w.
Kenny, of this city, late Principal of
Marshall College, Huntington, com.
mitted suicide this afternoon by tax
ing dose of cyanide of potash. He
was about twenty-one years Of age,
and had for several months been a
hard drinker, especially the last few
days. He had been drinking hard
last night, and to-day had been set
apart by his father for lecturing
him. While at the bar yesterday
he remarked to his companions that
it would probably be the last drink
he would take with them. He stop
ped into drug store where he was
accustomed to loaf and procured the
poison, waiting upon himself in the
absence of the druggist in an adj
joining room. He took the fatal
dose about p. m. to-day, standing
in the coal house adjoining their
home, and to which his mother was
attracted few minutes later by his
groans. 1t was about 5 o'clock
when he died, despite all medical
aid He was a peculiarly bright
young man, and was soon to take a
responsible position with business
house. 1t is known he was sadly
discouraged with life and took the
dose with suicidal intent.
A Washington dispatch to the
New York Herald, gives the follow
ing: "Capon Springs, a fashionable
mountain resort, about seventy i've
miles distant from Washington, in
West Virginia, was the scene of a
duel several days ago, according to
the rules of the modern prize ring,
between two of the young men
guests. 1t was intended to keep the
affair u profound secret, but the par
ticulars leaked out to-day through
some of the returning visitors to the
springs. One of the principals was
the son of distinguished Western
Congressman, whose family has been
spending the summer at Capon. The
other is hot blooded South Ameri-
can, an attache of one of the lega-
tions from that country. The pri-
mary cause of the difficulty was the
attentions paid by the young men
to one of the ladies at the springs
Each, it seems, was jealous of the
other, but each concealed his senti-
ments until dispute subsequently
sprang up between them during a
game of base ball. The lie was
given, and the South American
promptly challenged the statesman's
son. The challenge was as prompt
ly accepted, the weapons named be-
ing naked fists. The parties met at
five o'clock the following morning in
field back of the hotel. All the
matters of detail were carefully CON
sidered. Each man had his seconds
and a referee chosen from among
their mutual friends was selected in
the interest of fair play. The affair
ended in one round. Before its ter
mination, however, both men were
considerably battered and covered
with blood. Finally. the Westerner
succeeded in planting a blow upon
his antagonists neck. 1T knocked
him out completely, and the states
mans son, amid the shouts of his
friends, was carried off the field in
triumph"
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